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When I entered the room, Holmes, as is his wont nowadays, was seated at his computer. But he was also listening to an unfamiliar tenor voice.
"What do you make of him, Watson?"
"Apart from the obvious facts that he was born in the Veneto, studied in Rome and has some difficulties in the passaggio and a tendency to sharpen?"
"Precisely. But can you identify him?"
Pertile? Zenatello? De Negri? De Muro? None of these, surely. Smiling sardonically at my mortification, Holmes indicated a disc lying on his escritoire.
What could it be? A complete (or nearly so) Aida, originally issued on ten-inch Columbia 78s, in 1912, with a ...